Camila Cabello is dropping her fourth studio album, C,XOXO, on Friday (June 28), and the undertaking options a variety of star-studded collaborations, together with “Sizzling Uptown” that includes Drake and a observe with the rapper on his personal referred to as “Uuugly.”
Cabello opened up about collaborating with Drizzy in a brand new interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, noting that it began within the DMs. “I really feel like, a minimum of from what I do know of myself, I really feel like we’re musically aligned in a whole lot of methods,” she stated of herself and Drake. “I feel we’ve got a whole lot of the identical style, and lyrically as nicely. I truly slid into his DMs too, and I used to be like, ‘I’ve been listening to you a lot for this album,’ a whole lot of the wordplay and my aspiration for bars.”
The pop star revealed that Drake had been following her since across the time she launched “Havana” in 2018. “I DMed him after which I performed him my album and he f—d with it. I despatched the thought for ‘Sizzling Uptown,’ and I wrote my half. I despatched it again to him, and we chopped it to it felt like a duet. Then when he re-worked on his components once more, he gave me an outro which was the ‘UUUgly half,’” she recalled.
She continued, “It’s a twofer as a result of he didn’t actually need to offer me an outro, however for me, it’s like I don’t wish to hear a track like ‘Sizzling Uptown’ after which have it go into this one minute factor the place he’s speaking his s—, so we determined to simply make it one other track.”
Cabello and Drake made headlines again in December once they have been noticed chatting on a ship whereas on trip with associates in Turks and Caicos. “It was trip plus some work,” Cabello stated of the journey to Alex Cooper on the latter’s Name Her Daddy podcast in March.
Watch Cabello’s full interview on Apple Music beneath.